Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - The evil eye and the antidote. Two women from Gruids cam...
Contributors - Kate Ross
Reporters - Calum Iain Maclean

Summary - The evil eye and the antidote.

Two women from Gruids came east with umbrellas and one of them looked at one of Kate Ross's mother's cows, and later the cow wouldn't eat. Her mother went to the woman's house, and put a stone in the middle of the fire there. The woman admitted that she "took the evil eye on the cow". As soon as the stone was put on the fire in Gruids the cow in the byre started to chew her cud. Calum Maclean explains that the malice was transferred from the cow to the stone.

Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:01:22
Date Recorded - 1955
Language - English, Gaelic
Genre - Story, Information
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 279
Original Tape ID - SA1955.120
Original Track ID - SA1955.120.A9
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R



Recording Location:
  County - Sutherland
  Village - Lairg


Item Location:
  County - Sutherland
  Village - Gruids

Item Notes -

Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/279/1


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